Pith Number

pith:7KTBUIAY

pith:2018:7KTBUIAY54SCBM5V3IBKXAJWGT

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Steady-State Behavior of Some Load Balancing Mechanisms in Cloud Storage Systems

Eric Friedlander

arxiv:1801.02979 v1 · 2018-01-06 · math.PR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7KTBUIAY54SCBM5V3IBKXAJWGT}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:21.838758Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

faa61a2018ef2420b3b5da02ab813634ff63dad876df004a35845c578209e799

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.02979 · arxiv_version: 1801.02979v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.02979 · pith_short_12: 7KTBUIAY54SC · pith_short_16: 7KTBUIAY54SCBM5V · pith_short_8: 7KTBUIAY

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/7KTBUIAY54SCBM5V3IBKXAJWGT \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: faa61a2018ef2420b3b5da02ab813634ff63dad876df004a35845c578209e799

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1fdf3672cafff7448e7aa9f52fe2d590bfecfd05b774af8503b3a1a37b1393c6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-06T19:16:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5031c5b29f7ef0dccd1fe428c7dabd51e7f43f7f888e2bd22e1e6033c5506eb"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.02979",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}